Quote#Science & Reason
In the domain of political economy the abstract doctrines of science…
Quote byOtto von Bismarck · 1815–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in W. H. Dawson, Bismarck and State Socialism: An Exposition of the Social and Economic Legislation of Germany since 1870 (1891), p. 54.
English (original)
In the domain of political economy the abstract doctrines of science leave me perfectly cold, my only standard of judgment being experience.
— Otto von Bismarck
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